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The
$299 2 GHz iMac '040 - did you ever wonder what
became of the Motorola 68040, or even the 68030, for
that matter? Motorola didn't just say, "Oh well, Apple
quit using this chip, let's shut down all production
of it." No, quite the opposite occurred. Motorola continued
development, and the chip is now used in a wide variety
of embedded and proprietary technologies. In fact, this
venerable chip is approaching the 2 GHz level!

Review
of the new LCD iMacs - I'm happy to say that they've
done a bang-up job. While it may be hard to convince
someone using a 2 year old PC that they need a new machine
that is 500 MHz faster, it's a pretty easy sell to show
people how easily they can quickly and easily do all
sorts of useful things with this new iMac right out
of the box

Proctor:
iMac G4 has look of future - Are the iMacs above
their competition? Well, the iMac includes four free
Apple programs for digital content -- iPhoto for handling
photos, iMovie for editing video, iTunes for music and
iDVD for burning DVDs -- all of which perform very well.

Technology
innovator: Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac -
Until 1998, we all knew what a personal computer looked
like. Beige boxes surrounded by a terrifying tangle
of peripherals and wires, we tended to stow them in
corners to hide their ugliness. Then came the iMac,
the brainchild of Apple's head of design Jonathan Ive.

Apple
Store offers 90-day no payments - Apple is offering
users that purchase product from the company's online
store a grace period before they have to start paying
for their new hardware and software

Redesigned
iMac: A Flat-Out Winner - In our latest survey,
we asked Macworld subscribers for their impressions
about Apple's redesigned iMac. Karlin Associates surveyed
441 subscribers between February 6 and February 12

Amazon
points to 48% of iMac G4 sales being PC Converts
- We still have a few weeks left until Apple gives its
quarterly report (probably to occur around the middle
of April,) but indications are good that PC users are
flocking to iMacs in record numbers. The specific numbers
will most likely be in Apple's next quarterly report,
but Amazon.com has given us something to think about.
Of all of the major catalog sites online that sell Macs,
Amazon.com is the only one that seems to allow readers
to post their reviews of any product (including computers)
that it sells. It is here that we find anecdotes to
the possibility of triple the amount of PC converts
as the previous iMac models

Moviemaking
on iMac shows PCs need to catch up - Even the inconvenience
of the ports being on the back of the snow-globe base
didn't bother me (other reviewers have complained about
it, but I think it's a nonissue). It's cool to look
at, blazingly fast, nearly silent in spite of its internal
fan, and has a 15-inch flat-panel display that's as
sharp, bright and vivid as any I've seen. And the stainless
steel arm, which lets you adjust the screen's height,
depth and angle with one finger, is perhaps the slickest
piece of industrial design magic ever seen in a personal
computer

Finally,
a Reason Not to Be PC - Ź Apple's new iMac has a
pared-down price to match its sleek and simple design.
Look no further for an excuse to defect from the PC
ranks. This year's new and vastly improved iMac adds
value to Macintosh style and simplicity. Apple Computer
has given its entry-level iMac line a new microprocessor
that is equivalent to a high-end Intel Pentium 4, and
a CD drive that, in some models, can also write data
to CDs and DVDs.

Gartner:
Apple's Price Hike Will Be Imitated - During Macworld
Expo in Tokyo last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) shocked
its millions of fans by announcing that it will raise
prices by US$100 across its three-model line of flat-panel
iMacs. Apple, already struggling to meet demand for
its new machines, also was struck with increased component
costs. Those costs apparently made it impossible for
the company to deliver its new iMacs at the original
prices, which started at $1300, while retaining a reasonable
profit margin

iMac
Delay Gossip - Nothing can be proven, and that's
just how Apple wants it. But according to MacUser UK
(via MacSurfer's proprietary link), the reason those
iMacs have been delayed has nothing to do with LCD screen
shortages and everything to do with firmware and movable-arm
assembly problems

iMac
delays linked to firmware glitch - An article posted
to a restricted section of Apple's Knowledge Base online
support resource contains details and installation instructions
for an iMac firmware update. The file, which is only
available to Apple internal staff members and official
support providers, updates the firmware on the iMac's
SuperDrive which improves compatibility with the Maxtor
hard drive. The document says the update is only needed
when performing a service repair on a SuperDrive iMac

Behind
the iMac Price Hike - Like a frugal Amish farmer,
any columnist worth his byline welcomes every opportunity
to roll up his sleeves and milk a promising topic for
all it's worth. This week, Apple Computer's announcement
that it will raise the price of its new iMacs to offset
parts shortages lends new juice to my recent musings
on Mac supply and demand

Can't
Apple Take A Hint? Cheaper is Better! - That's right
folks; the iMac costs $100 dollars more - that's $1,399
just for the base model. The reason? "Significant
increases in component costs for memory and LCD flat-panel
displays." Give me a break. Are you telling me
Apple had to raise the cost of all iMac systems by 100
big ones just because the price of memory went up?

Apple
tests history with iMac increases - According to
Wall Street Journal reporter Jim Carlton in his best-seller,
Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania and Business
Blunders, a similar Mac price increase of up to 29 percent
in 1988 ended up slashing Apple's profit margins from
51 percent to 48 percent.

iMac
G4, helping or hurting Apple - Apple this week announced
that it is now shipping "5,000 new iMacs per day, and
hope[s] to catch up with demand soon," [Link] but will
this be enough to stop the criticism that has plagued
the company since the introduction of the next generation
iMac? Well the answer is no. In response to "significant
increases in component costs for memory and LCD flat-panel
displays" Apple will also increase the cost of all iMacs
by $100

Annecdotes
confirm iMac shipments getting better - This news
appears to confirm Steve Jobs' assertion that the new
iMacs are now shipping in volume. Although Quanta certainly
has an interest in making this information available,
especially as it relates to analysts' expections

Improved
iMac shipments to boost Quanta revenues in March
- Quanta Computer said that despite worse-than-expected
performance in January and February caused by complications
in its shipments of Apple Computer's new iMac LCD PC,
revenues and shipments for March are expected to set
new monthly records thanks to notebook orders from Hewlett-Packard
(HP) and the resolution of the iMac's shipment problems.

Apple
In Volume Production of New iMacs - Apple today
announced it has shipped more than 125,000 new flat-panel
iMacØ computers since its launch in January and is now
shipping over 5,000 new iMacs per day

iMac
Availability - Reality Distortion? - Joswiak also
takes issue with the perception -- and some published
articles -- that Apple is stocking its own stores with
iMacs, leaving their dealer network with none of the
new flat panel computers to sell to its customers. "The
reality is, this is just not true," said Joswiak. "We've
shipped less than 10 percent of the new iMacs to our
own retail stores

Apple
exec on the iMac, iPod, Cinema and Bluetooth - "We
have now shipped more than 125,000 iMacs and we've ramped
production to more than 5,000 a day," Apple's Senior
Director of Hardware Product Marketing Greg Joswiak
told MacCentral. "This is really good news; it means
that we are going to eat into to the backlog created
for this product."

For
true out-of-the-box video editing - All things considered,
should you buy the flat panel iMac just to dabble in
video editing? Not necessarily. Buy the new iMac only
if you are sold on the LCD monitor, smaller footprint,
superior design and DVD burning capability. The important
things here, again, are FireWire and iMovie, available
on the older iMac

My
iMac epiphany - After 17 years of loyalty to the
PC (starting with the IBM PS/2 and ending with a Dell
Dimension), I broke down and bought the new Apple iMac.
The iMac has been called revolutionary by some (Apple
fans and design freaks) and an expensive lamp or innovative
dinner tray by others (PC diehards)

Lamp
stand iMac proves elusive - Despite peppering consumers
on the weekend with glossy brochures pushing all three
flavours of its new-look iMac computer, Apple is struggling
to fulfil back orders up to a month old, including large
orders for a low-end model yet to reach the country.

Apple
Profits May Fall Victim to iMac Success - As the
first quarter of 2002 wraps up, financial analysts have
modified their earnings estimates for Apple Computer
(Nasdaq: AAPL). This shift comes despite -- or perhaps
because of -- the thumbs-up reaction from analysts and
industry watchers to the company's latest product, the
G4 flat-panel iMac

iMac
Makes for Sexy Computing - Everything about the
new iMac is beautiful. I could even go further and call
it sublime. The revolutionary machine looks less like
a computer than the kind of ornate lamp the art deco
and nouveau movements produced; while its operating
system, Mac OS X (pronounced 10), not only looks beautiful,
but runs like a dream

Apple's
new iMac: The whole story on this snazzy system
- Our reviews team finally got their hands on the much-hyped
Apple iMac and gave it a thorough examination. We tested
a $1,799 top-of-the-line unit complete with an 800MHz
processor, a 60GB hard drive, and a Pioneer DVD-R/CD-RW
drive. Apple does, however, offer two more conservative
configurations, but all are powered by a PowerPC G4
CPU and an Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics chip

Apple
(UK and Ireland) - Hot News - Paul Smith Meets the New
iMac - Paul so loves the look of the new iMac that
two of the revolutionary machines recently graced the
windows of his flagship store in London's Covent Garden.
Either side of the "nose" created by the shop's
door, the twin flat-panel displays each carried a huge
eyeball, both of which moved incessantly - and in tandem
- much to the fascination and amusement of passers-by

Craving
an iMac? Go to an Apple store - Shortages of a hot
new product have Macintosh dealers grumbling that Apple
Computer is showing preferential treatment to company-owned
retail stores--something the company promised would
not happen

Smelly
G4 iMac Woes - As longtime Applelinks and MacOpinion
readers will be aware, I am afflicted with Multiple
Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), which complicates my relationship
with computers and many other things in our 21st

Hands
on with iMac accessories - Since I took an in-depth
look at the new flat panel iMac last Wednesday, today
I thought I'd offer my hands-on experience with the
first two peripherals especially made for the new computer:
the gHub and the Flat Panel Wedge

PlayStation
mag gives nod to iMac - An interesting acknowledgement
of the new iMac's cool factor came from an unlikely
source this month: PlayStation enthusiast magazine PSM

Cool
Design Won't Save a Dud Product Ever since the iMac,
shelves have been littered with bold failures. Here's
how to get it right. - Take an ordinary object, give
it sleek curves and cool colors, and -- poof! -- instant
market domination. Jonathan Ive, who created the look
of the new iMac, has become a superstar in the field

IMac
emulators will always fail - design guru - PC manufacturers
have failed to learn the lessons dealt out by Apple
-- a failure that could lead them to obscurity -- according
to a UK finalist in the International Forum Design awards,
Alloy Total Design

Apple
flat-planel iMac the better way to go with digital media
Details mean a lot with PCs - One looks like a toy
igloo with a movie screen on top, the other more than
a little like Darth Vader. One runs the Mac OS X by
default, 9.2 if you prefer -- while the other has Windows
XP Home Edition. But the difference that's uppermost
in my mind, after using Apple's new flat-panel iMac
and a Hewlett-Packard PC that's roughly comparable in
price and positioning for the past few weeks, has nothing
to do with hardware or software

Testing
out the new iMac - I could give you lots of technical
info about the quality of the screen, the speed of the
processor or how powerful the speakers are, but the
bottom line is everybody who saw it, wanted it.

Hands
on with the new iMac - Two weeks ago, I put aside
my Power Mac G4 tower and have used nothing but the
new flat panel iMac (the 800 MHz/ SuperDrive). I have
to say that Steve Jobs may be right: this could be the
best Mac Apple has ever made, at least on a "bang for
the buck" basis

Flat-panel
iMac hard to come by - The Cupertino, Calif.-based
computer maker is struggling to produce, let alone meet
demand for, its new all-in-one, flat-panel iMac, according
to analysts and other sources. The production problems
have been caused in part by a shortage of 15-inch LCD
(liquid-crystal-display) flat panels, they say

Forbidden
fruit - Jai Chulani, the Bombay boy who's now Apple's
worldwide iMac product manager uses a slightly different
measure. "Just see how often iMacs are shown in
Hindi movies!" he says. Chulani's in India to launch
the new iMac, revealed by Apple's founder Stephen Jobs
in January. Reactions have ranged from Time magazine's
rapturous cover, to more sceptical views that refer
to it as the world's most advanced desklight or the
iBreast (for the base)

Apple:
The Comeback Kid? - S Don't laugh (or worse, try
to change the subject). Apple's new iMac may get businesses
to buy its computers again.

iMac
delays due to shortage of LCD displays? - Ingram
has 6,500 orders for the midrange and low-end iMacs,
which are just coming into the market now. Tech Data
has 1,000, but neither has any in stock or a firm ship
date from Apple

Bold
Apple System Avoids the Sophomore Slump - As the
best-selling Mac of all time, the original iMac set
a standard for Apple that's tough to top. To stand a
chance, the design of any follow-up iMac would have
to be just as bold, as remarkably different as the original.
Apple has succeeded--its new pivoting two-piece flat-panel
iMac is a triumph in terms of design, computing power,
and value

Apple
in a stew over iMac screens - Although an Apple
spokesman declined to comment, analysts believe that
the shortage is caused by the constricted supply of
flat panels, which some have said is linked to radiation
problems.

iMac
supply 'at a trickle' - The report says distributors
Ingram Micro and Tech Data have a backlog of orders
extending 18.6 and 10.7 weeks respectively, and that
they had received just 1,326 iMacs by March 4. Apple
has already announced that 150,000 pre-orders were received
in the weeks following the iMac's announcement.

Australian
stores run out of new iMac - Two major Apple Distributors,
MacSense and KH Distribution, report that sales of the
new flat-screen iMac have been so good that supplies
have been unable to keep up, creating a backlog that
they expect to last until the end of March

When
Supply Is Tight, Who Gets New Macs? - As it struggles
to meet demand for its new iMac computer, Apple Computer
is both expanding and contracting its retail universe.
On one hand, it is opening more Apple-branded stores
in the U.S.; on the other, it has severed ties with
retail giant Circuit City.

A
Study in Contrasts - Choosing between Apple's new
iMac or a Windows XP computer involves more than deciding
between stylish white or basic beige

iMacs
to aim at new PC users in India - aking to The Times
of India, Mahendran Balachandran, the newly-appointed
country manager of Apple Computer India, said: "With
the latest iMac launch, we want to position the Apple
brand on the top of mind recall of the Indian PC users.
The market strategy that we are deploying now is to
strengthen our channel partners and engage the large
customers directly." Apple India has over 80 channel
partners spread across the country

Apple
Hit By Production Delays - Early reports of delays
were met with claims that the local market would be
"awash" with iMacs by mid to late February. However
many customers are still waiting and it's expected to
be at least mid March before the February backlog is
met.

Where
O Where Has My New iMac Gone? - Recent news reports
have confirmed that demand for the new computers has
greatly surpassed both Apple's and industry analysts'
highest expectations

No
new mid-range, low-end iMacs till April - Sources
have confirmed to MacUser that the delays in availability
of the flat-panel iMac were caused by serious problems
on the production line. The insiders would not comment
specifically on what delayed production, but confirmed
the problems were 'firmware related', and caused the
production line to be shut down for more than a week

My iMac(flat
panel) first impressions - My First Impression was
how fast I received it after ordering! I ordered my
new 800 Mhz iMac(Flat panel) on Feb. 10th. and received
it on the 19th. It actually took longer for the 5 pack
DVDs that I ordered with it. HINT: don't pay for shipping...
they air freight it from Taiwan:)

Undress
Your Mac for Thrills - Apple's new flat-panel iMac
is just starting to show up at people's homes in large
numbers, and its arrival is prompting a strange manifestation
of techno fetishism: People are holding iMac unpacking
ceremonies for friends and family

Why
Intel will never inspire an iMac - Three years ago
at Intel's Developer Forum, a group of bunnymen in gold
lamˇ bunnysuits bounced down the stage with Intel-commissioned
concept PCs. It was a particularly low point of the
bi-annual event. The reason? Much as it would like to,
Intel will never make or inspire an iMac. When Steve
Jobs returned to Apple in the summer of 1997, he brought
one vital ingredient; an understanding of how design,
manufacturing and technology should work together. Out
went the over-extended production line of PC-wannabe
beige boxes that proliferated under the gaze (or not,
as I hope the case is), of Gil Amelio.

The
shape of things to come - The iMac is the centrepiece
of Apple's "digital hub" concept, a fancy name for an
attractively simple idea. By teaming up peripherals
such as a digital video camera, a digital still camera
and the wonderful iPod portable MP3 player with the
new iMac, Apple contends you have the "perfect foundation
for the perfect digital lifestyle". You'd be forgiven
for thinking this is simply the marketing department
doing what marketing departments tend to do - believing
their own nonsense - and that would be a fair assessment,
until you factor in the superb suite of Apple software
that allows all types of "digital lifestyle" devices
to connect to your PC

Me
and my iMac - If, like me, you have been slightly
wary of the striking look of the new Apple iMac since
its launch last month, I can prescribe the perfect cure:
sit the machine on your desk and watch it go

The
iMac Challenge - Apple's latest desktop or Gateway's
500SE: Which wins?Apple Computer's new iMac is the most
stylish personal computer you can buy. But is it the
best entry-level computer?

Apple
Mulls Foray Into Retail Segment, Rolls Out Upscale iMacs
- Speaking to The Financial Express on the sidelines
of the launch of new, upscale iMacs, Mr Parminder Singh,
marketing manager, Apple Computer, said: The entry into
the retail arena is being actively considered. Presence
in retail arena makes sense now as we've a fairly strong
desktop portfolio With the induction of three new iMacs,
in addition to the existing two iMacs.

Apple's
sexy new iMac is seductive - up to a point - I've
been seduced by a computer. Not just any computer, but
the new iMac from Apple, the sleekest computer I've
ever seen. It's so much fun to operate, so efficient
and stunning to look at that I have come very close
to abandoning the PC-based Windows XP computer that
is my main system

Analyst:
New iMacs slow in coming - Shares of Apple Computer
fell Wednesday after a Merrill Lynch analyst warned
that shipments of new flat-panel iMacs could fall short
of estimates, citing reports of production problems
in Taiwan

iMac
packs in power - Apple has always pushed style and
image when selling Macs, and this one is no different.
In its first three weeks of release Apple took 150,000
orders for the new iMac, and after using it I can see
why. It is classy, elegant and a great performer - and
it attracted plenty of attention in the office.

'I
want one!' - The arrival of the new iMac to the
Computer Times office met with "oohs", "ahhs" and cries
of "I want" from colleagues.

Focus
on Design - Opinions have varied about whether the
new design of the Apple iMac could be flawed. Some have
argued that the machine is too easy to knock over because
of its smaller-than-usual base. Others have questioned
the reliability of the iMac's neck, which separates
its LCD from the base. Apple, however, has said that
it spent two years developing and testing the design
and stands behind it.

Quest
for an iMac - After about ten minutes of hanging
out, we managed to attract the attention of a salesperson.
We asked if they had any new iMacs. "Oh yeah, we
got in eight of them. They're selling like crazy. In
fact, that one (points to a box near the back of the
corner) is the last one ." Maybe we had somehow
missed the display model. We asked if there was one.
"No, we don't have one out on display... just that
one in the box." We asked if we could look at that
one then. "Sorry, man, but we can't take it out
of the box. But you can

Apple
iMac balances style with substance - prices are
in line with similarly configured PCs of the Windows
world. I tested the top-of-the-line 800-megahertz model,
which costs $1,799 and is now available in stores

Apple
iMac: Bold New Look, Software Bundle Woos Converts
- If the crowd in our labs is any indication, Apple
has a success on its hands with the new iMac. Even jaded
veterans of the platform wars stopped by to admire the
machine's innovative design, attractive hardware complement,
and excellent software bundle.

A
look at the new iMac's shipping delays - It's no
surprise that meeting demand for the new iMacs hasn't
gone as smoothly as everyone hoped for -- the top-end
model, originally slated to ship last month, is just
now shipping in quantity to select dealers and Apple's
own stores

Analysts,
Amazon say iMac sales strong - Although it's still
too early to get concrete sales figures for the iMac,
which debuted last month, analysts believe that sales
are strong so far. Market research firm NPD Techworld
said it did not have enough data on the iMac's retail
sales to comment. Amazon, however, said Friday that
the new iMac, which appeared on the e-tailer's computer
store Feb. 13, sold out in less than four hours. Amazon
said that the iMac is the fastest-selling computer in
the company's history and that Apple laptops and desktops
occupy 10 of the top 25 best-seller spots in its computer
store

Apple's
fortunes hinge on iMac's success - The only thing
flat about the latest iMac is its monitor. From early
indications, the $1,299-to-$1,799 iMac is Apple Computer's
hottest product in years. Introduced last month to rave
reviews for its space-age design, consumers have since
flooded Apple with orders - so many, in fact, that some
buyers may have to wait up to a month to get their hands
on one

iMac
G4 Reviewed - For around $1200 (based on current
pricewatch prices), you can put together a 1.67GHz Athlon,
with a nice 15" CTX flat panel monitor, and Logitech
wireless mouse/keyboard. So how does the iMac compare?
While the Athlon comes in at a lower price, if you add
the price of a DVD burner onto it, the Athlon and the
iMac are roughly the same price, if you need IEEE1394
(firewire), then the iMac ends up being cheaper. The
Athlon has a much larger footprint, after all you have
the system unit, and the iMac takes up about as much
space as a flat panel screen

iMac
out for meet-&-greet - Apple's taking its new iMac
out to meet the public this month, announcing a series
of 27 in-store "Discovery Days" across the UK.

Apple
Debuts iMac Spots - In one spot entitled "SuperDrive,"
the iMac's flat-screen display stares down as its base,
as the CD-ROM drive opens and closes. The iMac looks
up, only to be startled that an audience is watching

The
New iMac Impact - Will the new iMac increase Apple's
marketshare? This question was pondered during a visit
to the local FutureShop

San
Josˇ Mercury News: New iMac Is Great, But So What?
- Mike Langberg has reviewed Apple's new iMac for the
San Josˇ Mercury News (article posted at SiliconValley.com).
The review takes on a slightly schizophrenic tone as
Mr. Langberg loves the new iMac, but criticizes it for
not being ground breaking enough.

New
iMac is not an earthshaking change - Apple Computer's
new flat-panel iMac, the one that looks like a folding-arm
desk lamp, is the most elegantly designed computer I've
ever touched. I only wish it were something more

Email
Anonymous - I had another idea for a column yesterday
until someone pointed me to the latest Mike Langberg
column on the San Jose Mercury News site. Seems he's
a bit disappointed in the new iMac. What a clown, what
a clueless, pitiful clown

iMac
review - After spending 6 days in transit our iMacs
arrived yesterday. After spending several hours with
them we think we can give you a fairly good idea of
what to expect when yours arrive, or perhaps help you
decide if you want to buy one

An
Important Note About LCD iMacs and Memory - An Important
Note About LCD iMacs and Memory By Amy Hoy, Editor Posted
02/15/2002 There are a few facts all potential owners
need to know about the LCD iMac and memory. First, you
may have noticed that it costs quite a bit ($200) to
upgrade the memory to 512MB from 256MB on Apple¶s Built-to-Order
site. The reason is an unfortunate side effect of its
sexy design

Apple
SuperDrive turns multimedia burn into pleasure -
This week I want to focus on a remarkable technology
built into two of the three new Mac models: the SuperDrive.
This electromechanical marvel is a key element in Apple's
Digital Hub strategy. With SuperDrive, anyone can create
DVDs with digital-quality video, animated menus and
other so-called "rich media."

Installing
Linux on the iMac G4 - nstalling Linux on the iMac
G4 is a pretty painless task. At the time of writing
this guide, video support does not work correctly out
of the box, we plan on testing out the latest kernel,
XFree 4.2 and nvidia patches within the next day or
two

Hook
'Em With Cuteness - the appearance of these two
spots on Apple's ads page is no doubt kicking up the
usual firestorm of controversy about whether or not
the new ads suck. We can hear the complaints already--
"doesn't tell you anything about the system," "where
are the price/performance figures," "why is the new
iMac staring at its private parts," etc

Innovative
iMac melds form and function with finesse - So,
it looks more like a Luxo lamp than a computer -- that's
part of its charm. It looks like it belongs on a desktop,
even more so than the old, egg-shaped iMac and certainly
more so than the ugly rectangular boxes and hulking
monitors of the rest of the computer world.

The
Laptop vs. Desktop Dialectic - David Coursey and
David Berlind over at AnchorDesk have been conducting
a public discussion on the topic of using a laptop as
one's only computer. Berlind, the laptop advocate, and
Editorial Director of ZDNet Tech UpdateToday, has been
practicing what he preaches for 10 years , while Coursey
says he would like to go laptop-only, but can't

Short
Take: ZDNet's David Coursey -- Apple Shill - When
we were younger, my sister and I fought all of the time,
so much so that, whenever she did something nice for
me, I automatically blurted, "What do you want?
Why are you being nice to me?" I have the same
initial reaction to ZDNet Editor David Coursey -- take
his comments from yesterday as a f'rinstance. He wrote
a piece titled "Why I just love the new iMac (and
why you might, too)," in which he publicly slobbers
over the iMac, in an evenhanded sorta way

Apple
Jacks It Up - Sure, it's odd. But with its powerful
features, the new iMac is not only a great multimedia
computer--it's also a surprisingly good bargain.

New
iMac takes us back to the future - The first Machines
to arrive in New Zealand will be the superdrive version,
able to burn CDs and DVDs and selling for about $5500.
Most of the first shipment has been sold already. In
the first three weeks after announcing the iMac, Apple
received 150,000 orders worldwide.

Finally,
a No-Hassle, No-Strain Computer - Apple Computer
Inc. long ago demonstrated that computers don't have
to be ugly. And the new iMac, which is an excellent
computer at a competitive price, is yet another striking
example of the Apple tradition. But this time, Apple
is taking on an even more important question: Why do
computers have to be uncomfortable to use?

Why
I just love the new iMac (and why you might, too)
- It's been a week since I started using a new iMac
as my full-time desktop and a PowerBook G4 as my portable
PC, all as part of my month-long challenge to see if
I, long a loyal Windows user, could make Apple the center
of my computing universe. There are still a few problems--specifically
related to getting PDA data in and out of Microsoft
Office. But besides that, I've made a very smooth transition.

Apple
Leaves SuperDrive Idling at Top End - The newly
unveiled iMac is a brilliant product, nothing less than
what Steve Jobs has given us before. It is truly attractive.
(Did I say it was brilliant?) Most importantly, it is
both powerful and very user friendly. However, the version
of the iMac priced at US$1299 should include Apple's
SuperDrive (CD-R/W + DVD-R) to be considered truly revolutionary.

Apple
Begins Shipping New iMacs - We have taken over 150,000
pre-orders for the new iMac in the first three weeks
- which is more than all of the pre-orders we received
for the original iMac in 1998, said Philip Schiller,
Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
It's sure looking like the new iMac is going to be a
huge hit with both Mac users and PC switchers

Details
on the LCD iMac's Fan - the new iMac does in fact
contain a fan, rather than relying on convection cooling
as we reported. However, we were pleased to learn that
it isn't an ordinary fan. It's temperature-activated,

Digital
editing, not flat screen, is the new iMac's real gem
- is this reconstituted iMac worth the hype, or is Apple's
marketing strategy merely artificial hysteria generated
to invigorate both the moribund personal computer market
and the company's anemic stock price? Brett Miller,
a consumer electronics analyst for A.G. Edwards and
Sons Inc. in St. Louis, says "yes" to the first part
of that question, and "probably" to the second

The
new iMac:Love it or hate it - IF PCs are the Hondas
and Toyotas of the computing world, then Apple Macintoshes
are its Italian sports cars. Pricey, sexy, objects of
techno-fetishistic worship that at times borders on
the pornographic.

Calling
All Readers: How Many Of You Originally Hated, but Now
You Love, The New iMac? - I've gone on record to
say that I hated the new iMac when it was unveiled,
only to change my mind after I was able to get my mitts
on one. I'll even go so far as to say that Apple will
sell more of these machines than it did with the original
(six million sold, to date). I know that I, for instance,
have never had a desire to own an iMac until after January
7

The
new iMac from a gamer's perspective - At last, it's
the iMac this gamer has been waiting for. Sexy and sophisticated,
Apple's new consumer computer doesn't compromise performance
for a small footprint. With Nvidia GeForce2 MX-based
graphics, up to 1GB of RAM and the best looking digital
flat-panel display in its class, the iMac is absolutely
certain to appeal to a lot more gamers than its predecessors

Flat-Panel
iMac vs. the World - Apple's G4 iMac is off to a
fast start, generating brisk demand and capturing significant
attention from customers. But hungry competitors are
vying for the same consumer space and innovative PC
designs from the Windows world are banging at the gate.
By all indications, the new flat-panel iMac is a hit.
Apple chief financial officer Fred Anderson claimed
that the new system is generating the most product demand
seen since the original iMac, and analysts are predicting
that the G4 iMac could trigger a buying cycle from Apple's
installed consumer user base

Will
the New iMac Go the Way of the Cube? - Because of
its radical design, unusual shape and small footprint,
Apple's new iMac computer has been compared by many
to the company's failed Cube. But I would argue that
the new iMac is completely different from that machine.
In fact, I believe it is a lot more like the original
iMac then it is the Cube -- and may thus be destined
for the same level of success

2001
iMacs on special at Apple Store - Well, now that
the new "Luxo Jr." iMacs are here, Apple is finally
ready to clear out their 2001 iMac inventory and is
offering discounts of up to 30 percent.

Pro
User's Perspective on the New iMac (and Other Apple
Revelations) - As the Mac systems administrator
for O'Reilly, I went to Macworld San Francisco with
lots on my mind. I was in line at Moscone Center Monday
at 6:30 a.m. for the keynote, attended the show each
day throughout the week, and was still standing, though
with tired feet, at 4:00 p.m. Friday to help pack up
the few books we had remaining at the O'Reilly booth.

Apple
Turns Profit In 1Q - But net income fell and the
company signaled profits won't increase next quarter,
as the cost of shipping new iMacs drains gross margins.

iPhoto
more impressive than iMac? - The redesigned iMac
stole headlines last week -- not to mention the cover
of Time magazine. But I was even more impressed with
some of the applications that are helping to sell Apple's
hardware, especially the newest announced at Macworld
last week, iPhoto

Apple
iMac 800MHz PowerPC G4 - The iMac is dead; long
live the iMac. After ringing up reported sales of 6
million units, Apple retires its famous teardrop-shaped
consumer computer and replaces it with a visually striking
device that has to be seen to be appreciated.

Desklamp
is a head-turner - SOME folks say it looks like
a desklamp. Others compare it with a soccer ball hacked
in half, an igloo, an upturned bowl, a cantaloupe or
a radar dome. However you look at it, there's no doubt
Apple Computer's new iMac is different from any other
PC you've seen. It's a head-turner, a crowd pleaser,
a sexy, elegant and - some would say - exciting piece
of industrial design

Flat-screen
iMac wows design guru - Apple's new iMac has won
the endorsement of the influential computer design guru
Don Norman. "I searched it thoroughly and studied it
carefully looking for problems or flaws," he said. "I
couldn't find anything. It is brilliant design," he
told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital

A
Flat, Flat, Flat Screen World - With Apple's sleek
new iMac leading the way, flat screen displays are poised
to muscle bulky TV-style computer monitors off desks
and into dumpsters. Despite a sluggish global economy,
worldwide sales of stand-alone flat screen displays,
also known as liquid crystal displays or LCDs, will
rise 64 percent in 2002, while sales of traditional
cathode-ray tube, or CRT, monitors will drop 6 percent,
according to Eric Haruki, an analyst for the consulting
firm IDC.

iMac
is no threat to CRT screens, say experts - Apple
chief executive Steve Jobs proclaimed "the official
death of CRT" when he unveiled the new iMac flat screen
design last week at the Macworld conference. Though
Apple's design excellence has in the past spurred others
to imitate it, the new iMac is unlikely to kill off
the CRT monitor

That
new iMac: tiny, white and not much else - I am starting
to worry about Steve and design. It's a bit like watching
the Flying Wallendas' tightrope act back in the '60s,
as, one by one, they tried impossible world-class things,
and, one by one, fell --- Do people really care whether
their PC looks like a casaba melon or two books? Not
much, I'd reckon.

The
new iMac: symbolic of what is wrong in technology
- Besides the fact that the iMac hasn't broken 1ghz,
it's ugly. Throw into that the realization that MacOS
X isn't robust enough to handle a real utilitarian,
and the choice here is simple, and it's not me loving
an iMac

Hey,
Cool - If I compare it against the Cube, this time
it looks as if Apple has it right. True, the pricing
isn't entry-level, but the Cube was trying to create
a funny niche that wasn't there -- a price point too
close to the regular Power Mac, with fewer features
-- and it could only sell on cool. Some people say it
doesn't have enough features, it looks odd, etc. They
said that about the first iMac, and it sold.

Apple
Needs a Revolution, Not Just a New iMac - Except
for the (arguably) pleasing aesthetics of the base and
the lack of cables from the back of the monitor, the
new iMac is as revolutionary as was the original iMac.
Both are just a visually pleasing version of something
Apple or someone else already made

The
New iMac Value Equation - Compared with the $999
classic iMac, the CD-RW G4 iMac runs 100 MHz faster,
has the G4 processor, includes the same size hard drive,
has half the memory, only has a single built-in speaker,
includes an LCD monitor, and has a better CD-RW drive
(24/10/32x vs. 8/4/24x). By way of comparison, a Power
Mac G4/733 with a 15" Studio Display (which sells for
$599 all by itself) would set you back $2,298. Same
speed, same display, smaller footprint, less expansion
options, $1,000 difference in price.

Where
you'll find the new iMac - Apple's new iMac has
already received acclaim from the general media, including
us. It's being heralded as a great step forward - a
LCD monitor is now affordable, and adding to that a
SuperDrive, which was available for over 1,000 dollars
just last year is quite astounding

Aesthetics
aside, Expo crowd likes new iMac 'pro' features -
"I never thought it would come with a G4 processor,
and I never thought I'd get a SuperDrive for this price,"
said Tom Harrington of Sacramento, Calif. "I'll be buying
one just for the performance it offers." When asked
about its looks, Harrington commented, "I'm not crazy
about it, but I can live with it."

New
iMac friendlier, but Apple falls short - he company's
new OS X operating system is built with the stability,
multiuser support and networking ability required, and
OS X is now the default operating system on every Mac.
Also, the addition of easy, built-in peer-to-peer networking
ability would raise the new iMac to a much higher plane

The
Best Revenge Why the New iMacs Will Be Successful No
Matter What They Look Like - In 1999, I was commissioned
by Vanity Fair magazine to write a story about the relationship
between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. While I know both
men, I know them separately, not together, and I just
wanted to better understand how they got along. The
only hint I had was from a joint interview they did
several years ago for Fortune magazine in which Gates
said that when they were together, Jobs bossed him around.
It is very hard to imagine anyone bossing around Bill
Gates. I had to know more

IMac:
What's in a Design, Anyway? - Called for comment
this week on Apple's new iMac -- a redesigned, flat-screen,
pivot-arm model -- several industrial designers offered
a less consistent view of the new machine. None of them
hated it; industrial designers seem to always find Apple
products at least interesting. In fact, most of the
designers loved the new machine, saying once again that
it heralded a new trend. But a few were less sure about
the iMac, saying the effort might be a little clumsy

Net
watchdogs criticize Time's timing - According to
one compatriot, Canada was the first to produce (partial
list): degradable plastics, oil wells, the 911 CPR training
dummy, a national commercial satellite telecommunications
system, synthetic insulin, the streetcar, the snowmobile,
the paint roller, standard time, the zipper, kerosene,
pulp newsprint, the dental mirror, basketball, baseball,
in-line skating. In other words, you might say, pretty
much everything useful since Eve invented applesauce
a few days following the dawn of human history. This
past weekend, Canada was first again with TimeCanada.com's
breathtaking scoop on the new Apple desk lamp, which
many think may double as a desktop computer. TimeCanada.com
was so swift with the news, which broke on the Web site
Sunday night, that it even beat parent publication Time
magazine in the United States. This was a great coup,
notwithstanding the fact that it preceded a strict Monday
noon embargo agreed upon between Time and Apple

Apple
Delivers Hyperbole and Beauty - In the hours that
followed, the Internet bulletin boards exploded with
angry messages. "Steve, you lying [expletive]," wrote
one indignant member of the MacCentral.com forum. "How
is iPhoto + iMac 'beyond the rumor sites'?!? They have
been predicting that [stuff] for a year now. I AM NOT
BLOWN AWAY!" Was Apple guilty of overhyping?

Apple
has high hopes for iMac - With the launch this week
of the new flat-panel iMac computer, Apple says it showed
its strategy for riding out the current slump in PC
sales and general consumer confidence: release compelling
products, and the buyers will come. Apple believes the
combination of new iMac and iBook computers, along with
recent refinements to the new Mac OS X operating system
and new software, will keep the company competitive
even as the big PC makers are slashing prices and making
massive layoffs

For
Apple, to Be Flat Is a Virtue - You could join the
PC-making herds who retreat into ever cheaper, ever
more boring beige boxes. You could try tinkering with
the existing iMac's plastic case, maybe trying out new
patterns like paisley or argyle. Or you could pack that
classic iMac off to the great flea market in the sky,
betting the farm on something even more radical: a new
design that eliminates both the beige and the box.

Can
the iMac fix what's wrong with the PC? - Desktop
computers don't get much stroking. We poke them, haul
them and bang on them when they upset us. But stroking?
Hardly. That's because most desktop computers do not
respond to touch. They are squatting, dispassionate
helpers. They do not move closer when we're feeling
cozy, or turn away when we need space. At least they
didn't until this week. Apple's new iMac does these
things -- you can stroke it into position -- and that
makes this design even friendlier than the original

The
New IMac - Just An Angle-poise Lamp Or A Design Classic?
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its radical break from
past designs and the relatively high price, opinions
on the new iMac are fairly closely divided. The 'Fors'
only narrowly outweigh the 'Againsts'. While one poster
echoed the thought of many saying 'absolutely beautiful
- I want one', another was of the opposite opinion,
saying, 'It's too weird, looks like a 70s lamp. And
much too expensive?' One contributor is confident, however,
that the iMac, 'will only take about six months to become
a design classi

MWSF
- GeForce2 MX Standard On All Mac Platforms - NIVIDIA
Corporation has announced the extensive partnership
with Apple on the heels of the introduction of the new
iMac. NIVIDIA's GeForce2 MX is now standard across all
Mac platforms. The 2D and 3D graphics engine will be
the powerhouse behind the iMac's standard LCD flat screen
and other graphics apps

Apple
iMac (PowerPC G4, 800MHz, 256MB SDRAM) - While a complete
evaluation in CNET Labs awaits, the new iMac appears to
have great potential for both home and small-business
users--that is, of course, if buyers can embrace the daringly
different design

Reporter's
Notebook: iMac ideas Apple never thought of - I
certainly like the new machine. You've got to see it
up close to truly appreciate its marvelous design. It's
like the best design elements of the original iMac and
the Cube merged into one machine, then taken to the
next level. And though it does have a fan, as well as
cooling by convection, it's surprisingly quiet

Please
Lick This iMac Yet another utterly annoying, nearly
perfect gizmo gem from those shameless bastards at Apple
- Just what the hell is wrong with Apple Computer? We
are in the middle of a snarling economic sociocultural
downturn. We are depressed and angry and war-embittered
and everything is bleak and mean and black as Donny
Rumsfeld's beady eyes. No one is supposed to be offering
gear like the new iMac right now. No one is supposed
to be inventing bright clean outwardly dazzling apparently
very well-made, classy, innovative, unique appliances
in the vast teeming wasteland that is the electronics
marketplace right now. This is just wrong

IMac
Designers: Competing with an original - "At first
blush it comes off (as) a bit weird, to put it gently,"
said Mark Rolston, vice president at industrial design
firm Frog Design. "I think it's one of those designs
that takes at least a few days to get used to." Ive
noted that although Apple eventually sold roughly six
million of the original iMacs, the all-in-one machines
were initially met with skepticism

iMac
Will Help Apple, but Price May Deter Some Schools
- For large enterprises using Power Mac G4, the new
iMac is a lower-cost alternative, but iMac comes with
a limited one-year warranty. For mainstream corporate
Mac users, the iMac is a viable alternative. Engineering
and graphics arts users may still prefer the expandability
and availability of dual processors in the G4 models.
Education customers will have to consider whether they
can afford to buy the new iMacs.

The
Round Mound of iMac Rebound - Apple's new iMac has
already earned a few nicknames, including the iTit and
the iBlob. But perhaps the most telling is one being
bandied about the Macworld show floor: the "iWant."
Apple's new machine looks to be a smash hit, if the
reaction at Macworld and online is anything to go by.

New
iMac dazzles with a dome - Critics are fairly impressed
with the new iMac. "The design is certainly very appealing,"
says Kristina DeNike, director of the test lab for Macworld
magazine. "I'd give it a B-plus." Why not an A? "I'd
like to see the entry price down around $1,000," she
says

Up
Close and Personal With the New iMac - the hemispherical
base is quite a noticeable lump on the desktop. Its
footprint is only 10 and a half inches in diameter,
but it also rises 10 and a half inches up. Depending
on your monitor angle, you may not even see the base
in the course of normal work, but if you do, the bright
white base is noticeable. The rounded shape is dramatic,
but with the iMac's keyboard, mouse and speakers added,
the shape could make arraying your workspace slightly
more problematic. You can't, for example, push your
keyboard up against the base

All
Hail the iMac - analysts are overwhelmingly upbeat
about iMac's prospects among its core audience and first-time
computer buyers. Indeed, many expect the updated version
to see the same kind of success that the original iMac
enjoyed. "I think Apple, with the proper appeal of the
product - which they definitely have - will draw in
customers," says Kunstler. "Mind you, it's a tough act
to follow, because the iMac didn't have any act to follow."

Add-on
makers looking for piece of iPie - As in the past,
makers of add-ons were sitting through Steve Jobs' Macworld
Expo keynote, both marveling at Apple's latest creations
and thinking of ways to cash in on the new machines.
However, such companies are also mindful of mimicking
Apple's designs too closely, after having been burned
in the past by the company's frequent color changes.

Quanta
gets a boost from Apple by way of new iMac - Quanta
Computer Corp has been tapped by Apple Computer to manufacture
the new iMac computer, local media said yesterday. Quanta
will produce up to a million of the computers and 600,000
LCD screens from subsidiary Quanta Display, the report
said.

The
Tilting iMac Movie - MacityNet has made a special
shot of the different configurations and the movement
of the lcd panel:

Cool
On Cool & Wanting More - As I sit back a day after
the keynote, after digesting what Steve Jobs had to
offer up, I feel like I'm living the old adage that
says that one is always hungry an hour or so after eating
Chinese food. What Jobs showed at the keynote was good,
but I want more. It's not that I'm a greedy techno-junky
who constantly needs a fix of bleeding edge gee-whizadry
to function, it just that I feel I was promised more.
I believed that I was going to finally feel like I'm
living in the Second Millennium

Macworld
and the new iMac - The size is both bigger than
you might expect (compared to a lamp) and smaller than
you're used to. It's much smaller than a gumdrop iMac,
and smaller than most CRTs it would replace. The door
mechanism on the drive opens more quietly and more smoothly
than on my G3 Blue and White tower, and the monitor
is easy to move and stays where you put it

Joy
in iMacville - About the same time I was posting
yesterday's Lament for a Budget iMac, MacCentral was
publishing the news that Apple "has decided to keep
two original CRT iMacs available for the education market
and consumers -- both systems are priced under $1,000."
Good for them -- that's exactly what I said they needed
to do

TECH21
Apple's new iMac Team develops unique ideas - Its
body is a half-sphere measuring 10 1/2 inches in diameter.
Inside that is the main logic board (a.k.a. motherboard),
which also is round, plus the system's drives, the power
supply (no power brick needed) and an ultraquiet fan

Phil
Schiller: iMac a breakthrough product - "If you're
a new user getting into the marketplace, you have to
look at the Mac and say, 'Wow, if I care about photos,
video or music, the Mac is such a better place to be
than a PC,'" Schiller told MacCentral

Apple
still offering CRT iMacs - Although Cupertino is
betting heavily on the success of the new flat-panel
iMacs, they've chosen to continue offering older, CRT
models for price conscious education and consumer buyers.
Both models are priced under US$1,000

Apple's
new iMac Suspense ends as Jobs unveils latest Apple
innovation at Macworld Expo - "At the last couple
of Macworlds, people have come away disappointed because
there were no real changes to the iMac," Beaulieu said.
He added that criticism against Apple has been somewhat
unfair since competitors like Gateway and Dell have
done nothing to change over the years, either. "You
look at the rest of the PC industry, and the last time
I checked, they were still shipping big beige boxes
with wires hanging out of the back," Beaulieu said.

Flat
screen will be death of big tubes, Apple says -
Apple isn't the first computer maker to introduce all-in-one
computers with flat-panel displays. IBM Corp. began
selling a similar product in May 2000. But the IBM NetVista
was aimed at corporate users and didn't offer the same
flexibility as the Apple display.

Apple
unveils new iMac Cost of flat-panel desktop questioned
- With the computer industry in a nasty slump and Apple
customers clamoring for something new, Apple's legendary
publicity machine went all out to hype the new iMac.
The company moved Jobs' speech up a day in an effort
to trump Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates' speech
at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Apple
also arranged for a cover story on Jobs and the iMac
in this week's Time magazine and distributed copies
of the magazine to thousands of Macworld attendees as
they exited Jobs' speech

MWSF
- Closeup Pics Of The New iMac (With Pics) - The
ones in the bottom row are from a prized possession
held aloft on a pedestal onstage where the company was
offering OS X presentations. It was almost perfect for
taking pictures, which was why were asked not to actually
take any. Go figure

Steve
Jobs unveils slow new Macs, has Time Magazine editors
murdered - When commie executive officer Steve Jobs
tells us that he wants to "innovate" his way out of
the recession, as he did yesterday at the keynote for
San Francisco's annual Macworld show, he appears to
mean "repackage existing, years-old technology in slightly
different shapes." Taco Bell does the same thing, of
course; year after year it introduces "new" food products
ultimately comprised of the same six (and only six)
ingredients

Lump-Stick-Rectangle
II - It's official: we've got a new champion in
the "Mac Community Flamebait" category, and that's really
saying something. Based purely on voluminous viewer
feedback, people seem split roughly fifty-fifty over
the design of the new iMac, but it's a pretty polar
split-- much like Key Lime or Flower Power, people tend
to love it or hate it, without a whole lot of middle
ground creeping in there. The good news is that the
people who love it really seem to love it

Commentary:
Mixed marks for new iMac - Most noteworthy is the
new iMac's stylish design, which focuses on the half-sphere
CPU base and pivoting flat-panel display. As it did
with the first iMac, the iPod and the Cube, Apple is
stressing the new iMac's industrial design and fashion
as its primary competitive advantages. Gartner considers
this new iMac introduction to be good news, because
a product update was long overdue

New
iMac "less shocking" than original - "The iMac has
come to mean so much," said Apple design guru Jonathan
Ive, who helped shape the original iMac as well as more
recent PowerBooks, iBooks and the iPod. The question
now is whether the public will gravitate toward the
new model. The Power Mac G4 Cube, for example, also
offered a unique design but lived a short, undistinguished
life. And so far, the public is displaying a range of
reactions to the new flat-panel iMac.

New
iMacs. iPhoto. Good Stuff. - I'll be honest, none
of the things that my various sources told me were to
be announced were actually announced. We aren't in the
rumor business here at TMO, but if we were I would have
publicized what I "knew" because I was pretty sure it
was right on target. Lo and Behold!, it was not. It's
either that or there were some major last minute changes
in plans

iMac:
Insanely Great! - The "old" iMac was a social icon,
a design to remember and the change will be hard for
some. I have even heard people suggest that they should
have developed a new name for such a radically different
computer. This, of course, would have been foolish;
Apple has too much invested in what the iMac name means;
ease of use and affordability

Will
public buy new iMac design? - IDC analyst Roger
Kay wonders whether the new iMacs' similarity to a lamp
could be its undoing. "I think that it may suffer some
from its resemblance to some desk accessory," he said.
"The proof will be in the usage of it. If it is flexible
to use and the engineering is good, I think people will
take to it. If any of that is off, given the look, it
could be a disaster."

Does
The New iMac Have What It Takes To Survive In School?
- there is one glaring problem that I can see the new
flat-panel iMac having. The problem that I'm referring
to is durability. While it's not really fair for me
to judge the strength and sturdiness of the new iMac
since I'm home freezing in Philadelphia and the iMac
is in sunny San Francisco I'll venture to say that the
newest iMac isn't that tough. It certainly isn't as
tough as the original iMac design

New
iMac Armed for Success - The small dome somewhat
resembles the Airport networking station that Apple
released in July 1999. According to Jobs, shrinking
the size of the computer "eliminates the problems of
boxes spewing all over the house."

iMac
Unveiled Before Its Time - As news of the new iMac
made it onto Macintosh discussion boards late Sunday
evening, it appeared that Mac fans were indeed blown
away by the machine. "I love Apple! When others recede,
they refocus, when others slash, they armor, when others
go around chanting the end of the world, Apple builds
a new one," wrote Darcy,

Apple
redesigns iMac for gadget lovers - During his two-hour
address, Mr Jobs berated the rest of the computer industry
for focusing on cost-cutting over the last year, instead
of designing new products. "This project has taken two
years," Mr Jobs told the conference. "We have been busy
innovating while our rivals have been restructuring
and laying off thousands of people."

New
IMac looks like a swing-arm lamp - Analysts say
it's about time for a change. The shape of the IMac
has remained nearly unchanged since its introduction.
The company added clear plastic so the machine's guts
could be seen in 1999, and Apple also built in a slot-loading
CD drive as a feature. There have been few other tweaks
to the machine's look and feel. "For a company that
lives on design changes, they can't just keep the same
form factor," Needham & Co. securities analyst Charles
Wolf said.

Apple
unveils iMac2 - The Anglepoise Generation - We managed
to rotate the base 90 degrees clockwise, and the monitor
90 degrees anti-clockwise to improve access, but it's
not something you'd want to do too often. So some usability
has been sacrificed in favour of aesthetics. Optimally,
the Mac keyboard ought to have a FireWire port in addition
to, or replacing, one of its USB ports. However, what
could have been a perilous and ungainly operation -
balancing an LCD on a hinged stand - works beautifully

Cover
blown on new iMac, iPhoto - The new iMac has a 26.4-centimeter
footprint and Time quotes iMac designer Jonathan Ive
as calling the new design "a little cheeky".

Apple
set to take the wraps off redesigned iMac - Details
of the new iMac have been scarce, with Apple officials
remaining tight-lipped on what users can expect the
company to unveil at this week's Macworld Expo in San
Francisco. The cat, however, is already out of the bag.
The first pictures of the new iMac slipped into the
public domain on Monday, when Time Inc.'s Canadian Web
site, Time Canada, ran two photographs of the elusive
revamped iMac

MWSF
Shocker - Time Canada Prints Early Story Showing New
G4 LCD iMac! - Could this have been an awful mistake
by Time Canada's web staff? Is this even the big news?
Is Steve tearing his hair out right now? Some of TMO's
staff on hand in San Francisco reported hearing a banshee
howl echoing out across the hills of the city late Sunday
night, but couldn't confirm whether or not it was Mr.
Jobs

Has
Time Canada Spoilt The Party? - Time Magazine Canada
may have unintentionally let the cat out of the bag
with pictures of a new Mac pictured with Steve Jobs
on the cover

Apple
pares down the iMac - The revamped iMac looks nothing
like its egg-shape predecessor or any other PC for that
matter. A liquid crystal display attaches by a chrome
swivel bar to a white base that holds the guts of the
computer

Praise
be to Steve Jobs - The marketing magician strikes
again, with a Time cover story singing hosannas to a
product on the very day of its public unveiling.